NoMachine

[Lew Bloch]

> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 21:59, Rick Lim wrote:
> 
>>> >From what I can see the virtual machine NX aka No Machine uses ssh.
>>> I need to login as root to do maintenance remotely using the GUI, No Machine
>>> will not allow me to login as root.
>>> 
>>> Is there a work around for this keeping in mind that I need to login as root
>>> and use a GUI interface.

John Mellor suggested:
> sshd has a "PermitRootLogin" flag in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to do just
> this.  By default, it is set to "no".  Change it to "yes" and send a
> SIGHUP to sshd to get it to re-read its config file and you should be
> all set.
> 
> p.s. Make sure you've got a really good root password, seeing as there
> are a lot of co-opted machines out there doing stupid ssh root/password
> and root/none attack attempts...

It would be a lot more secure to log in as a NON-root user, then 'su' to 
root.

Do not set "PermitRootLogin" to "yes" ("true").